Supporters of charter schools, including thousands of students, rallied and marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday.

"It shouldn't matter what we look like. Our background, our zip codes. We as parents have a right to choose whatever we want our kids to go,” said Noreen Cooke-Coleman, principal of Zeta Bronx Tremont Park Lower Elementary School and a parent of two charter school students.

Charter schools are public schools funded with taxpayer money but privately managed. They are typically not unionized.

The rally — attended by staff, students and parents who were bused in by the schools — came at the start of the school year and less than seven weeks before the mayoral election.

Leaders say the rally was not targeted at any particular elected official, but Democratic nominee Z

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